VPN and Mapping Drives

[Guest]

Server is W2K SP4
Laptops are XP Pro SP2

Logging into VPN, then trying to map 5 drives by using a batch file.

2 drives map reliably. 3 do not. Error is always: System error 53 has
occured - network path not found.

If I take the same VPN settings and login... and the same batch file... and
use them on a SP1 XP Pro machine... all 5 map reliably, repeatably, happily,
consistently etc.

XP SP2 firewall is disabled.

I have assigned permissions and security settings on the shared folders for
the mappings letter for letter identical.

HOSTS and LMHOSTS files on both machines are identical.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

 

[Pawan Agarwal \(MSFT\)]

Are the 3 mapping which are failing are always same? If so for the failing
drive mappings try to ping the remote machines to see if machines are
reachable.

I hope these machines are in your private network over which ping will not
be disabled.

 

[Guest]

Yes - we can ping.

The drives we are mapping are actually five folders on the same machine e.g.

Mapped drive T = \\server\folder_1\folder_a
Mapped drive U = \\\server\folder_1\folder_b
Mapped drive V = \\\server\folder_1\folder_c
Mapped drive W = \\\server\folder_1\folder_d
Mapped drive X = \\\server\folder_1\folder_e

In this example T and W would be mapping each time, the others do not.

Are the 3 mapping which are failing are always same? If so for the failing
drive mappings try to ping the remote machines to see if machines are
reachable.

I hope these machines are in your private network over which ping will not
be disabled.
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-Pawan [MSFT]

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Server is W2K SP4
Laptops are XP Pro SP2

Logging into VPN, then trying to map 5 drives by using a batch file.

2 drives map reliably. 3 do not. Error is always: System error 53 has
occured - network path not found.

If I take the same VPN settings and login... and the same batch file...
and
use them on a SP1 XP Pro machine... all 5 map reliably, repeatably,
happily,
consistently etc.

XP SP2 firewall is disabled.

I have assigned permissions and security settings on the shared folders
for
the mappings letter for letter identical.

HOSTS and LMHOSTS files on both machines are identical.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.